WWI Digest 2058 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Book: Color Profiles of World War I Combat Planes by "Charles and Linda Duckworth" 2) RE: Happy New Year and Q for Queenie by Shane Weier 3) RE: unsubbed by Shane Weier 4) RE: New Year by Shane Weier 5) Re: New Year by Tom Solinski 6) Re: Happy New Year and Q for Queenie by "Lee Mensinger" 7) A new years resolution by Tom Solinski 8) webÊý¾Ý¿â by webdatabase@sohu.com 9) Re: A new years resolution by Albatrosdv@aol.com 10) Re: New Year by Albatrosdv@aol.com 11) Re: New Year by "Matthew Bittner" 12) 1:72 Scale Kit Database by "Steven Schofield" 13) 1/16 Albatros DVa by BEN8800@aol.com 14) Re: A new years resolution by "Matthew Bittner" 15) Eduard, was Re: A new years resolution by "Matthew Bittner" 16) Another one bites the dust by "Matthew Bittner" 17) 2000 Most Wanted by "Matthew Bittner" 18) Re: 2000 Most Wanted by CTJDavies@aol.com 19) Re: New Year by Suvoroff@aol.com 20) Re: New Year by "Matthew Bittner" 21) Source of lozenge by Tom Solinski 22) 2000 Most Wanted by "Dale Beamish" 23) Happy New year by "Ray Boorman" 24) Re: 2000 Most Wanted by "Peter Leonard" 25) Re: 1/16 Albatros DVa by "Michael S. Alvarado" 26) Re: 2000 Most Wanted by "cameron rile" 27) Happy 2000 was Re: unsubbed by Pedro e Francisca 28) Re: unsubbed by Pedro e Francisca 29) Dennis???? by Pedro e Francisca 30) 2000 Most Wanted (1/48th) by "Charles and Linda Duckworth" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 08:42:11 -0600 From: "Charles and Linda Duckworth" To: "ww1FAQ" Subject: Book: Color Profiles of World War I Combat Planes Message-ID: <002b01bf539d$3ee18080$af2c57d8@cnlduckwor> For anyone looking for the 1974 Color Profiles of World War I Combat Planes by Dicorato do a title search at http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/IList I came up with 14 copies available. Example: 12. Apostolo, G. & Begnozzi, G., Illustrated by The Author Color Profiles of World War I Combat Planes New York: Crescent, 1974 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First English Language Edition. Lightly used with traces of edge wear. Fully illustrated with 479 photos and drawings, 323 in Color. Intro by William Green. Book # 0000009712 US$ 50.00 Science Fiction, Military, Aviation, Space, Movie/Television Click here for more information or to purchase this book directly from Altair 4 Books, CA, U.S.A. The one listed at Kisselburg Military Books is already sold and being read ;^) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:38:37 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Happy New Year and Q for Queenie Message-ID: <65C968E11318D311B0BD0060B06865CDBD1B6C@mimhexch.mim.com.au> Hi all, > >I am sitting here watching the New Years' celebrations in > Sydney, Australia on my way out the door to go to work. I am sitting here in Australia, where it is now 12:30 am, Jan 1, 2000. Doesn't seem any different from last year - I still think the WW1 list is the finest group of people ever to communicate across the globe. >From sultry Brisbane Australia (where midnight is 1 hour after Sydney) I wish all of you the happiest of all New Years, and a special wish for the "community of the list" to carry on in its special fashion shaping the new global village into one of common interests and tolerance between the people of all nations Shane (who is stone sober and hunting Y2k bugs. Not a critter in sight - $50M well spent) ************************************************************** The information contained in this E-Mail is confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you receive this E-Mail in error, any use, distribution or copying of this E-Mail is not permitted. You are requested to forward unwanted E-Mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Help Desk. E-Mail: helpdesk@mim.com.au or phone: Australia 07 3833 8042. ************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:41:30 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: unsubbed Message-ID: <65C968E11318D311B0BD0060B06865CDBD1B6D@mimhexch.mim.com.au> Pedro, > I was killed by the list's management software and so was out for the > last 24 h (seems like y2k is striking sooner than predicted ;-). > > If anyone wrote anything for me through The List, would you > please do it again? Special Y2K Happy New Years to you and your countrymen. A Portugese frigate is docked in Hobart enjoying our hospitality after an East Timor tour - another happy cooperation across the globe for the new year Shane ************************************************************** The information contained in this E-Mail is confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you receive this E-Mail in error, any use, distribution or copying of this E-Mail is not permitted. You are requested to forward unwanted E-Mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Help Desk. E-Mail: helpdesk@mim.com.au or phone: Australia 07 3833 8042. ************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:52:36 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: New Year Message-ID: <65C968E11318D311B0BD0060B06865CDBD1B6F@mimhexch.mim.com.au> Matt, > > Now that I think of it though, I really want to build the Eduard > > D.V... ;-) Gee, breaking my New Year's resolution and it's not > > yet New Year... Matt Bittner > > > Build 2 ...get twice the fun. Or make them in 1/48 and actually enjoy yourself ;-) Shane ************************************************************** The information contained in this E-Mail is confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you receive this E-Mail in error, any use, distribution or copying of this E-Mail is not permitted. You are requested to forward unwanted E-Mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Help Desk. E-Mail: helpdesk@mim.com.au or phone: Australia 07 3833 8042. ************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 09:38:03 -0600 From: Tom Solinski To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: New Year Message-ID: <386CCDDB.E75651B6@ionet.net> Matthew Bittner wrote: > May the blessings of the New Year be with you all. Following on the heals of my fellow displaced North east Ohioan, Ditto!!! And may God, the Supreme being, or fate, whichever is the center of your beliefs grant each of you and your families a safe, comfortable, and hopefully prosperous NEW YEAR >From Oklahoma USA Tom & Jan Solinski ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 09:32:02 -0600 From: "Lee Mensinger" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Happy New Year and Q for Queenie Message-ID: <386CCC72.895176BC@wireweb.net> Not OT Shane did anyone report on how they celebrated New Years arrival in Alice Springs? Surely a DH2 or 4 flew over at least once. I heard strange things happen there. They told me that when I was there once in 1957. Lee Shane Weier wrote: > Hi all, > > > >I am sitting here watching the New Years' celebrations in > > Sydney, Australia on my way out the door to go to work. > > I am sitting here in Australia, where it is now 12:30 am, Jan 1, 2000. > > Doesn't seem any different from last year - I still think the WW1 list is > the finest group of people ever to communicate across the globe. > > >From sultry Brisbane Australia (where midnight is 1 hour after Sydney) I > wish all of you the happiest of all New Years, and a special wish for the > "community of the list" to carry on in its special fashion shaping the new > global village into one of common interests and tolerance between the people > of all nations > > Shane > > (who is stone sober and hunting Y2k bugs. Not a critter in sight - $50M well > spent) > > ************************************************************** > The information contained in this E-Mail is confidential > and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). > If you receive this E-Mail in error, any use, distribution > or copying of this E-Mail is not permitted. You are > requested to forward unwanted E-Mail and address any problems > to the MIM Holdings Limited Help Desk. > E-Mail: helpdesk@mim.com.au or phone: Australia 07 3833 8042. > ************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 09:52:11 -0600 From: Tom Solinski To: WW-I List Subject: A new years resolution Message-ID: <386CD12B.4BBC6040@ionet.net> Listers don't forget to start writing 1/1/00 on those cheques. Some previous threads were lambasting FSM for it's content and lamenting that manufacturers except for EDWARD and TOKO were Ignoring our OT wishes. Yesterday I was looking at the FSM most wanted kit list. Guess what? There wasn't a SINGLE OT model ON the list. We have a stateside cliché' " Use it or Loose it!" referring to our right to vote. Manufacturers have in the past paid attention to the relative minority of the modelers who have made some input to this "vote". May I humbly suggest that we look for the 2000 most wanted kit survey, (especially since FSM now has a web page) and slightly bias their outcome in our favor this year! It appears that last year not more than 100 people voted. So half of us could throw the outcome to any way we wanted. In fact we could do our own pre vote and decide that our "votes" would be the same from all over the world! 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The only complaint anyone could have about the D.IIIa is the decals, and Eduard is on that now - we won't have that problem on the next release. Happy new year all, Tom Cleaver (who *is* y2k-compliant - I think :-)) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:25:10 EST From: Albatrosdv@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: New Year Message-ID: <0.15f614cf.259e32e6@aol.com> In a message dated 99-12-31 08:58:45 EST, you write: << My New Year's resolution: try to build only "twins", i.e. twin engines and/or twin seats. Next on my list: Roseplane Hanriot HD.3. Now that I think of it though, I really want to build the Eduard D.V... ;-) >> Don't hold yourself to a statement made before you engaged brain. :-) Tom C ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 10:26:51 -0600 From: "Matthew Bittner" To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: New Year Message-ID: <199912311629.IAA03340@magpie.a001.sprintmail.com> On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 09:36:22 -0500 (EST), smperry@mindspring.com wrote: > > > Now that I think of it though, I really want to build the Eduard > > D.V... ;-) Gee, breaking my New Year's resolution and it's not > > yet New Year... > > Matt Bittner > > > Build 2 ROTFL!! Great call! :-) Matt Bittner http://www.geocities.com/~ipmsfortcrook http://pease1.sr.unh.edu/misc/ww1fr.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 16:34:48 -0000 From: "Steven Schofield" To: Cc: "Matthew Bittner" Subject: 1:72 Scale Kit Database Message-ID: <000d01bf53ac$f56b6640$7a8a93c3@oemcomputer> Thanks to Matt Bittner and whoever it was that wrote a piece of freeware called LeechFTP - the database is back in working order (I HOPE:-)) In the meantime, it's 4.30 p.m. here in the UK, the supermarkets are full of panic buyers (probably they're not certain they have enough party snacks or bottles of sherry.) I'm looking forward to a quiet night in watching the Star Trek film we got for Christmas and drinking the rest of the bottled beer. Have fun, and a safe Minellium, Scho http://www.ww1.org.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:32:45 EST From: BEN8800@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: 1/16 Albatros DVa Message-ID: <0.6d04e174.259e34ad@aol.com> I assume you all are talking about the Model Expo kit. Just so happens I wrote the instructions for this kit. Had a devil of a job cause I had to interpret some awful translated Italian, but I just did a lot on my own. This kit does have a few flaws with the castings, and I have noticed that in production runs some castings do not come out as good as they did in a previous kit. But all in all, for the $119 sale price you get a lot for your money.There is a ton of castings in this kit, and the laser cut wood parts are reasonably good. Now, I did not actually build one of these models, but as I wrote the instructions, Larry Edwards at Model Expo built the model that you see on the box. He is not a very experienced model builder, but he had little trouble building the model and came up with a nice model, very professional looking. He had little trouble with parts fitting, although he did find some areas that need tweeking, and he notified the designer to fix these. Whether or not it got done I don't know. That's the nature of this type of kit. It's not like your normal plastic kit. A bunch of castings are often off a little because of shrinkage. Some poor design may also creep in. On the whole I don't think anyone should be discouraged from building this kit just because a few don't like the way some parts don't fit well. Now I am not speaking because I was involved with it. Its not my design, it's Italian, and I don't get a thing if they sell it. I just feel it is a great kit despite it's faults. Yes, it is no Hasegawa, but then it don't cost $500 either, and more importantly it is one of the few kits available in this scale with structural details. Ben Lankford Vienna, VA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 10:31:16 -0600 From: "Matthew Bittner" To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: A new years resolution Message-ID: <199912311633.IAA26967@crow.a001.sprintmail.com> On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 10:56:27 -0500 (EST), Tom Solinski wrote: > May I humbly suggest that we look for the 2000 most wanted kit survey, > (especially since FSM now has a web page) and slightly bias their > outcome in our favor this year! It appears that last year not more than > 100 people voted. So half of us could throw the outcome to any way we > wanted. In fact we could do our own pre vote and decide that our > "votes" would be the same from all over the world! Great idea! We should poll first, here, on the list as to our top five choices, and then when the top five are figured out, all of us enter those top five into the poll. There are over 100 people on this list (I think). If we can get the entire list to agree to enter only those top five, then we should do it. And yes, the 1/72nd builders would enter the top five for 1/48th, and vice versa. If memory serves, they tend to break these up in scales anyway, right? Matt Bittner http://www.geocities.com/~ipmsfortcrook http://pease1.sr.unh.edu/misc/ww1fr.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 10:33:10 -0600 From: "Matthew Bittner" To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Eduard, was Re: A new years resolution Message-ID: <199912311635.IAA27938@crow.a001.sprintmail.com> On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:27:16 -0500 (EST), Albatrosdv@aol.com wrote: > An interesting idea, but the truth is, Eduard *is* taking care of our wishes > in OT (manly scale, anyway). The only complaint anyone could have about the > D.IIIa is the decals, and Eduard is on that now - we won't have that problem > on the next release. Just to let you all know, unfortunately it looks like the Albatros D.V - in the Correct Scale - also has these horrid decals from Poland. I haven't tried them yet, but nowhere on the decals are either the words "PropagTeam" nor "Microscale". Instead, all they say is "Made in Poland". So, aftermarket decals are a must. Matt Bittner http://www.geocities.com/~ipmsfortcrook http://pease1.sr.unh.edu/misc/ww1fr.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 10:35:44 -0600 From: "Matthew Bittner" To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Another one bites the dust Message-ID: <199912311638.IAA29593@crow.a001.sprintmail.com> Yes! I just added number seven for 1999 to the shelf! Granted, I still have a base to make for it, but the model itself is done. Sorry, off-topic ground pounder (but the best I have seen and/or built, period) which will be shown in the February Internet Modeler. Matt Bittner http://www.geocities.com/~ipmsfortcrook http://pease1.sr.unh.edu/misc/ww1fr.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 10:40:37 -0600 From: "Matthew Bittner" To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: 2000 Most Wanted Message-ID: <199912311642.IAA02107@crow.a001.sprintmail.com> Ok. Let me bite this one off. I will gather votes for your top five wants for next year, in any scale. HOWEVER, you must include the above subject line in your reply. You must, because I'm going to filter these off into a separate folder. You can reply through the list, but just be sure to have the above subject line attached. Without further ado, here's my top five. I would like to see the single seaters made by Eduard, and the double seaters as vacs from Roseplane: 1 - SPAD 7 2 - Nieuport 17 3 - SPAD 13 4 - Nieuport 14 5 - Breguet 5 So, as I said, be sure to include "2000 Most Wanted" in your subject line. Matt Bittner nb: nothing, cleaning up the workbench - a "ritual" I perform after every model built nu: Roseplane HD.3, and one of the Il-2's simultaneously nr: _Tales from a Shaman's Apprentice_ np: Computer Fan by Parts 'R' Us npimh: Mary Lydia Ryan (http://www.marylydiaryan.com) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:02:22 EST From: CTJDavies@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: 2000 Most Wanted Message-ID: <0.5fdb6f79.259e3b9e@aol.com> ...presuming the scale is not limited to 1/72, here are my votes (all 1/48) first and foremost: DH 9a (I would built several for a whole year) and then a small gap, but later followed by Gotha GV Halberstadt DII (was that the fighter?) DH 4 Friedrichshaven GIII or IV the gap would be filled with Hawker Demon, Hart, Hind Westland Wapiti DH 66 ... OOPS - SORRY GUYS Happy 2000 Chris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:06:26 EST From: Suvoroff@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: New Year Message-ID: <0.59dbbbae.259e3c92@aol.com> "My New Year's resolution: try to build only "twins", i.e. twin engines and/or twin seats. Next on my list: Roseplane Hanriot HD.3. Now that I think of it though, I really want to build the Eduard D.V... ;-) Gee, breaking my New Year's resolution and it's not yet New Year..." No, Matt, its OK - twin guns! Yours, James D. Gray ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:09:48 -0600 From: "Matthew Bittner" To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: New Year Message-ID: <199912311712.JAA26027@magpie.a001.sprintmail.com> On Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:12:31 -0500 (EST), Suvoroff@aol.com wrote: > No, Matt, its OK - twin guns! Even better! Thanks. :-) Matt Bittner http://www.geocities.com/~ipmsfortcrook http://pease1.sr.unh.edu/misc/ww1fr.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:22:40 -0600 From: Tom Solinski To: WW-I List Subject: Source of lozenge Message-ID: <386CE660.4C8FA9CB@ionet.net> For those of us who fly some of our creations Just visited Hobby Supply South (http://www.fly-hss.com/) and they carry the FLAIR products from England. I noticed and ordered a 1/6 scale pre printed lozenge fabric. Just one problem. It's only black lines on tan fabric. You get to paint in the rest of the colors. Better than nothing Tom S ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 10:41:46 -0700 From: "Dale Beamish" To: "List" Subject: 2000 Most Wanted Message-ID: <00bb01bf53b6$52a595c0$03000004@darcy> Here are my picks for the list: 1. Rumpler CIV 2. Junkers JII Is this the armored ground support? 3. Hansa Brandenburg CI 4. Phoenix DI /DII 5. Phoenix CII All in 48 scale please Dale ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 10:05:08 PST From: "Ray Boorman" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Happy New year Message-ID: <386cf054.28f5.0@telus.net> I live in the last but one time zone (Hawaii - cant spell that I think is the last), so its not new years for me for another 14 hours or so. As I dont plan to be checking my email at midnight ;) I thought now would be a good time to wish everyone on the list a very safe and happy New Year. May the next 100 years bring as many scientific and social breakthroughs as the previous 100, without the wars or strife of the past 100 years. Oh and lots more OT plastic too. Ray Boorman ================================================================= Internet service provided by telus.net http://www.telus.net/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 18:07:30 GMT From: "Peter Leonard" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: 2000 Most Wanted Message-ID: <19991231180730.31830.qmail@hotmail.com> So far I want everybody elses list, but here's my twopennyworth any how. In no particular order but all in the manly scale, 'coz I'm blind as a bat and have ten left thumbs on two right hands: a) BE2 (any variant) b) Albatros B type (BII prefered) c) Nieuport 24/27 d) SPAD 7 (doing well up to now) e)Vickers FB5 Peter L http://www.storks.cwc.net http://www.escadrille.mcmail.com PeterL@cwcom.net ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:57:02 -0500 From: "Michael S. Alvarado" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: 1/16 Albatros DVa Message-ID: <386CEE6E.3B9ABB71@bellatlantic.net> Ben, I have one of these kits and I like it. The castings clean-up well. The proper application of file, sand paper and steel wool and maybe a little superglue gel filler and they look great and can be made to fit with just a little tweaking. So far I have just barely started the engine. Obvious flaws with the kit (which are correctable) are (1) the lack of leading edge sheeting and webbing on the upper and lower wing panels, the lack of webbing in the after part of the lower wing ribs, the suspect rudder bar mounting and the lack of fusee spring covers on the Spandau machine gun receivers. All of these flaws are are more or less easily correctable for those of us truly afflicted with AMS. The fit of any wood model is always problematical and changeable due to the nature of wood. This is not a model for the rank beginner but it is the raw material for a truly great opus. Alvie BEN8800@aol.com wrote: > I assume you all are talking about the Model Expo kit. Just so happens I > wrote the instructions for this kit. Had a devil of a job cause I had to > interpret some awful translated Italian, but I just did a lot on my own. This > kit does have a few flaws with the castings, and I have noticed that in > production runs some castings do not come out as good as they did in a > previous kit. But all in all, for the $119 sale price you get a lot for your > money.There is a ton of castings in this kit, and the laser cut wood parts > are reasonably good. > > Now, I did not actually build one of these models, but as I wrote the > instructions, Larry Edwards at Model Expo built the model that you see on the > box. He is not a very experienced model builder, but he had little trouble > building the model and came up with a nice model, very professional looking. > He had little trouble with parts fitting, although he did find some areas > that need tweeking, and he notified the designer to fix these. Whether or not > it got done I don't know. That's the nature of this type of kit. It's not > like your normal plastic kit. A bunch of castings are often off a little > because of shrinkage. Some poor design may also creep in. > > On the whole I don't think anyone should be discouraged from building this > kit just because a few don't like the way some parts don't fit well. Now I am > not speaking because I was involved with it. Its not my design, it's Italian, > and I don't get a thing if they sell it. I just feel it is a great kit > despite it's faults. Yes, it is no Hasegawa, but then it don't cost $500 > either, and more importantly it is one of the few kits available in this > scale with structural details. > > Ben Lankford > Vienna, VA ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 13:10:38 +0000 From: "cameron rile" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: 2000 Most Wanted Message-ID: <3A25CB6A1AFB3D115A520005B80A9E19@cameron.prontomail.com> 1 DH.5 2 G100/G102 Martinsyde 3 BE2/BE12 variants 4 Bristol Fighter 5 Sopwith Snipe in 1/48 and preferably cheap enough that I can hack them to bits and not be fiscally embarrassed about my over enthusiastic lack of skill and poor knife insertion choices. At the moment I consider about $15 to $20 USD to be the cut off. Though I would pay more for a DH5 or 'tinsyde. cam http://members.xoom.com/PointCook/index.htm ______________________________________________________________ Get Your Free E-mail and Homepage at http://www.prontomail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 18:09:54 +0000 From: Pedro e Francisca To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Happy 2000 was Re: unsubbed Message-ID: <386CF171.109F89D@mail.telepac.pt> Shane Weier wrote: > Pedro, > > > I was killed by the list's management software and so was out for the > > last 24 h (seems like y2k is striking sooner than predicted ;-). > > > > If anyone wrote anything for me through The List, would you > > please do it again? > > Special Y2K Happy New Years to you and your countrymen. A Portugese frigate > is docked in Hobart enjoying our hospitality after an East Timor tour - > another happy cooperation across the globe for the new year > > Shane Thanks Shane, and I guess that by now you're too fogged to read, but anyway (I'm still 6 hours from the bing bang and can still use my fingers to write) hagve the best possible 2000 and this is extensible not only to all the rest of the Aussies out there but also to all the rest of the Gang. I', proud to be associated with such a bunch of lunatics. Glass raised glup glass downed (Hey Geoff, I'll have one for you too, don't despair ;-)..... Pedro ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 18:19:53 +0000 From: Pedro e Francisca To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: unsubbed Message-ID: <386CF3C8.578B46B6@mail.telepac.pt> Shane Weier wrote: > Pedro, > > > Special Y2K Happy New Years to you and your countrymen. A Portugese frigate > is docked in Hobart enjoying our hospitality after an East Timor tour - > another happy cooperation across the globe for the new year > > Shane > > Shane, Through you let me again thank Australia for the help provided during the Timorese Crisis. And I hope the way all the matter was handled may have some reprecussion in the future. There was no need to go out and bomb anyone and even though the people in East timor have suffered a lot, it seems that it is a happy case when compared to Kosovo or Irak or Rwanda or Angola or so many other places in the world. May the new Millenium bring about the solution for all these questions. Um abraco Pedro ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 18:20:32 +0000 From: Pedro e Francisca To: WW1 modeling list Subject: Dennis???? Message-ID: <386CF3F0.8E2E856F@mail.telepac.pt> Dennis? Where are you? Pedro ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 12:36:40 -0600 From: "Charles and Linda Duckworth" To: Subject: 2000 Most Wanted (1/48th) Message-ID: <004401bf53bf$582f0a40$9e2c57d8@cnlduckwor> 1. SPAD 7 2. Nieuport 11 3. Voisin L 4. Gotha GIV 5 Caudron G.IV ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 2058 **********************